Alexander Glazunov String Quartet No. 3, Op. 26 (1888) Quatuor Slave

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (Александр Константинович Глазунов, 10 August 1865 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued heading the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not bestknown student under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich. String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 26 (1888) Dedicated to Nikolay Artsybushev 1. Moderato 2. Interludium: Moderato (5:38) 3. Alla Mazurka: Allegretto (10:50) 4. Finale: Une fête slave. (16:51) Shostakovich Quartet